This list of mines in Australia is subsidiary to the

list of mines This lists of mines is a meta-list (list of lists) containing links to mine-related lists. By production *List of coal mines **List of coal mines in Australia ***List of collieries in Newcastle (Australia) ***List of coal mines in Queensland **L ...

article and lists working, defunct and planned mines in the country organised by primary mineral output. For practical purposes, this list also contains stone, marble and other

quarries A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their envir ...

. As of October 2012, there were 405 operating mines in Australia.

Coal

* Anvil Hill * Ebenezer Colliery *

Ensham coal mine The Ensham Coal Mine is a coal mine located 40 km east of Emerald, Queensland, Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 1.48 billion tonnes of Coke (fuel), coking coal, one of the largest coal r ...

Foxleigh coal mine The Foxleigh Coal Mine is a coal mine in Mackenzie River, Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Bowen Basin coal reserves of Central Queensland. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 102 million tonnes of coking coal, one ...

German Creek coal mine The German Creek Coal Mine is an underground coal mine 25 kilometres south west of Middlemount in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 248 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserv ...

* Gregory coal mine * Daunia mine * Glendell coal mine *

Goonyella Riverside Mine Goonyella Riverside Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in the Bowen Basin. It is one of many coal mines in Central Queensland, Australia and is located at Moranbah about 30 km north of the township. The mine produced 12.4 mi ...

Hail Creek coal mine The Hail Creek Coal Mine is a coal mine located within the Bowen Basin at Hail Creek in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 970 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the w ...

* Integra Underground * Jeebropilly Mine * Jellinbah East coal mine *

Kestrel coal mine The Kestrel Coal Mine is an underground coal mine located in the Bowen Basin at Crinum, 51 km northeast of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 158 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the ...

Lake Vermont Mine A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

* List of collieries in Newcastle (Australia) * Lochend Colliery *

Loy Yang Open-cut Coal Mine Loy or Loys is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Loy Allen Bowlin (1909–1995), outsider artist *Loy Allen Jr. (born 1966), former NASCAR driver * Loy Hanning, Major League Baseball pitcher i ...

* Maules Creek Coal Mine * Middlemount coal mine *

Millennium coal mine A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky). Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (ini ...

Moonee Colliery Moonee is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for ...

Moranbah North coal mine The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 261 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in the world. The mine has ...

Myuna Colliery Myuna Colliery is a coal mine at Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia. The colliery was developed to provide coal for the Eraring Power Station, 5 kilometres to the west.New Acland Mine The New Acland Mine is located adjacent to Acland township, about 10 km north of Oakey on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Geologically it is part of the Wallon Coal Measures and contains more than 500 million tonnes of c ...

New Oakleigh Mine The New Oakleigh Mine was a thermal coal mine in the Moreton Basin. The mine was located north of Rosewood in South East Queensland, Australia. It was one of two operating mines in an area with a rich coal mining history. Thermal coal was ex ...

Newlands coal mine The Newlands Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of the Bowen Basin at Newlands about 28 km northwest of Glenden in North Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 413 million tonnes of low ash steamin ...

North Goonyella coal mine The North Goonyella Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 175 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Australia an ...

Norwich Park coal mine The Norwich Park Coal Mine was an open cut coal mine located south-east of Dysart, in Central Queensland, Australia. In 2012, the mine closed for economic reasons not because it was exhausted. In 2003, the mine had coal reserves amounting to ...

Oaky Creek coal mine The Oaky Creek Coal Mine is a coal mine located 17 kilometres east-southeast of Tieri in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 288 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal re ...

Peak Downs Mine Peak Downs Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in Queensland located 31 km SSE of Moranbah. Peak Downs is one of seven mines in Bowen Basin owned by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, Australia's largest coal miner and exporter. Productio ...

* Rolleston coal mine *

Saraji coal mine The Saraji Coal Mine is a coal mine located near Dysart in the Central Queensland region of Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 648 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The m ...

* South Walker Creek coal mine *

South Waratah Colliery The South Waratah Colliery (later just Waratah Colliery) was a coal mine located at Charlestown, in New South Wales Australia. History The Waratah Coal was formed in 1862 to work a tunnel colliery at Waratah, which was served by a privately ...

* Stanford Main No. 2 Colliery *

Tahmoor Colliery Tahmoor Colliery is an underground coal mine at Tahmoor in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. It operates in the Bulli coal seam. Most of the mine product is hard coking coal used for steel making. A small quantity o ...

Telford Cut Telford Cut was an open-cut coal mine, now closed, in the Leigh Creek Coalfield in South Australia. For the 72 years between its opening in 1943 and its closure, the mine supplied sub-bituminous coal to fire power stations first in Adelaide the ...

* Teralba Colliery * Wallarah 2 Coal Project *

Wallarah Colliery Wallarah Colliery was a coal mine located near Crangan Bay, Nords Wharf, New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision ...

* Yarrabee coal mine * Westside Mine

Cobalt

* Browns polymetallic ore deposit *

Murrin Murrin Joint Venture The Murrin Murrin Mine is a major nickel-cobalt mining operation being conducted in the North Eastern Goldfields, approximately 45 km east of Leonora, Western Australia. The project was initiated as a joint venture between Murrin Murrin H ...

* Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine * Pulam Gold Mine in Laiagam

Copper

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* Browns polymetallic ore deposit * Cadia-Ridgeway Mine *

Carrapateena mine The Carrapateena mine is a large copper mine under development in South Australia's Far North region 100 km southeast of Olympic Dam and approximately 160km north of Port Augusta. Carrapateena represents one of the largest copper reserves in Au ...

Copper Mines of Tasmania Copper Mines of Tasmania is the successor company to the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company that operated in Queenstown, Tasmania for just short of one hundred years. History The first form of the company existed during the time of the M ...

Ernest Henry mine The Ernest Henry mine is a large copper mine located in eastern Australia, 38 kilometres north of Cloncurry, Queensland, Cloncurry in the state of Queensland. Ernest Henry represents one of the largest copper reserves in Australia and in the world ...

* Golden Grove Mine *

Hillside mine The Hillside mine is a proposed mine located in southern Australia in South Australia. It is being developed by Rex Minerals south of Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula. It will be near the current intersection of the Yorke Highway and St Vincent High ...

(proposed) *

Kanmantoo mine The Kanmantoo mine is a copper mine in the Australian state of South Australia located near the town of Kanmantoo about southeast of the state capital of Adelaide. History Copper was first discovered and mined in the 1840s. The town was establi ...

Mount Dundas (Tasmania) Mount Dundas is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated at the north west edge of the West Coast Range. As colourful a history as that of Mount Lyell, Mount Dundas has had a range of mines ...

* Mount Elliott mine *

Mount Isa Mines Mount Isa Mines Limited ("MIM") operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies. For a brief period in 1980, MIM was Australia's largest company. It has ...

* Mount Jukes Mine sites *

Mount Morgan Mine Mount Morgan Mine was a copper, gold and silver mine in Queensland, Australia. Mining began at Mount Morgan in 1882 and continued until 1981. Over its lifespan, the mine yielded approximately of gold, of silver and of copper. The mine was ...

* Mount Read (Tasmania) *

Olympic Dam mine The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world. Copper is the largest contributor ...

* Prominent Hill Mine * Telfer Mine * Wheal Hughes

Diamond

Argyle diamond mine The Argyle Diamond Mine was a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia. Argyle was at times the largest diamond producer in the world by volume (14 million carats in 2018), although the propor ...

* Merlin diamond mind

Lead

Gold

* Broken Hill mine * Browns polymetallic ore deposit * Cannington Mine *

Emily Ann and Maggie Hays nickel mines The Emily Ann and Maggie Hays nickel deposits are situated 117 km west of the town of Norseman, Western Australia, within the Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt.Hill R.E.T, Barnes S.J., Gole M.J., and Dowling S.E., 1990. ''Physical volcanology ...

* Golden Grove Mine * Hilton Mine *

McArthur River zinc mine The McArthur River mine is a zinc-lead mine, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia. It is operated by McArthur River Mining (MRM), a subsidiary of t ...

Stawell Gold Mine The Stawell Gold Mine (SGM) is a gold mine located in the town of Stawell, Victoria. The current site was established in 1981, however mining has occurred on and around the site since the town was established in the mid 19th century. The mine reac ...

* Wheal Watkins

Diamond

* Beta Hunt Mine * Browns polymetallic ore deposit *

* Honeymoon Well mine *

Mount Keith Mine Mount Keith Mine is an open pit nickel mine in Western Australia. It is operated by BHP. The site's closest landmark is the town of Wiluna, to the north. Overview The mine is located on the north end of the long Norseman- Wiluna Greensto ...

* Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine

Lithium

* Finniss Lithium Project

Silver

* Broken Hill ore deposit * Cannington Mine * Golden Grove Mine * Hilton Mine *

Olympic Dam, South Australia The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world. Copper is the largest contributor ...

* Prominent Hill Mine * Sunny Corner, New South wales * Wheal Watkins

Slate

* Mintaro Slate Quarries Pty Ltd

Talc

* Three Springs Mine

Tin

Emmaville, New South Wales Emmaville is a town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Northern Tablelands in the New England (Australia), New England region of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Glen Innes Severn Council district. Emmaville is at an elevati ...

Mount Bischoff Mount Bischoff is a mountain and former tin mine in the north-western region of Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated adjacent to Savage River National Park near the town of Waratah. Location and features Tin was discovered at Mount B ...

* Renison Bell, a

Tungsten

* Dolphin mine * Mt Lindsay mine *

Watershed mine The Watershed mine is a large open pit mine located about 160 km northwest of Cairns on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. Watershed represents one of the largest tungsten reserves in Australia having estimated reserves ...

Uranium

Beverley Uranium Mine The Beverley Mine is Australia's third uranium mine and Australia's first operating in-situ recovery mine. It is located in South Australia in the gazetted locality of Wooltana about 35 km from Lake Frome at the northern end of the Flinder ...

* Browns polymetallic ore deposit * El Sherana *

Four Mile uranium mine Four Mile is Australia's fifth uranium mine. It is sited in the Frome Basin in far north of the state of South Australia, around north of the state capital, Adelaide. It is from the existing Beverley uranium mine, where its uranium oxide produc ...

Honeymoon Uranium Mine The Honeymoon Mine was Australia's second operating in-situ recovery uranium mine, beginning production in 2011. It is located in South Australia and is northwest of Broken Hill, New South Wales. Honeymoon is a sandstone-hosted paleochannel de ...

* Jabiluka * Mary Kathleen, Queensland * Mount Fitch (Northern Territory) *

Nabarlek Uranium Mine The Nabarlek Mine is a uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia which was productively worked only in 1979. The deposit sits within the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field approximately northeast of Jabiru. It was discovered by Queensla ...

Radium Hill Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rather t ...

Ranger Uranium Mine The Ranger Uranium Mine was a uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia. The site is surrounded by, but separate from Kakadu National Park, 230 km east of Darwin. The orebody was discovered in late 1969, and the mine commenced ...

Rum Jungle, Northern Territory Rum Jungle is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 105 kilometres south of Darwin on the East Branch of the Finniss River. It is the site of a uranium deposit, found in 1949, which has been mined. The area deriv ...

Zinc

* Broken Hill ore deposit *

Century Mine Century Mine was a large open cut zinc, lead and silver mine at Lawn Hill, northwest of Mount Isa in North West Queensland, Australia. It was Australia's largest open pit zinc mine. Discovered by CRA Limited, mining was initiated by Pasminco, ...

* George Fisher mine * Golden Grove Mine * Hilton Mine *

* Cannington Mine * Dugald River Mine

Alumina/ Bauxite

Alcoa Australia Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is a joint venture between Alumina Limited (40% share) and Alcoa (60% share) and is abbreviated to AWAC. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite, the extraction of alumina ( aluminium oxide) and the smelting of ...

Rio Tinto Alcan Rio Tinto Alcan is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, based in Montreal. It was created on 15 November 2007 as the result of the merger between Rio Tinto's Canadian subsidiary and Canadian company Alcan. It is the global leader of aluminium mining and ...

* Weipa Mine *

Worsley Alumina Worsley Alumina comprises a bauxite mine located near the town of Boddington and an Alumina refinery located near Worsley. Ore is mined then transported to the refinery via an overland conveyor system. Alumina is then transported to the por ...

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Coal

Cobalt

Copper

Diamond

Lead

Gold

Diamond

Lithium

Silver

Slate

Talc

Tin

Tungsten

Uranium

Zinc

Alumina/ Bauxite

See also

Mining in Australia by State /Territory

Victoria

Western Australia

See also

References